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Hey .NET! Have you tried ML.NET?

August 21, 2019 Aug 21, 2019 08/21/19
Bri Achtman
ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework made for .NET developers. Using ML.NET you can easily build custom machine learning models for scenarios like sentiment analysis, price prediction, sales forecasting, recommendation, image classification, and more. ML.NET 1.0 was released at //Build 2019, and since then ...

.NET Framework August 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup

August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19
Brett Lopez
Today, we are releasing the August 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. BCL1 1 Base Class Library (BCL)   Getting the Update The Preview of Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and ...

.NET Core and systemd

August 19, 2019 Aug 19, 2019 08/19/19
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
In preview7 a new package was added to the `Microsoft.Extensions` set of packages that enables integration with systemd. For the Windows focused, systemd allows similar functionality to Windows Services, there is a post on how to do what we discuss here for Windows Services in this post. This work was contributed by Tom Deseyn from Red Hat. In...

.NET Framework 4.8 is available on Windows Update, WSUS and MU Catalog

August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19
Namrata Karnam
01/14/2020: This post has been updated with information about the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 for Windows Updates released on January 14, 2020 via Windows Update/WSUS/Catalog to include the servicing fixes since the .NET Framework 4.8 August 2019 Windows Update. Apart from the servicing fixes, there is no change in the .NET Framework 4.8 ...

Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8

August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8. Just like with Preview 7, we've focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release and are not adding new features. If these final previews seem anti-climatic, that's by design. Download .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 right now on Windows, macOS and Linux. ASP.NET Core and EF Core are also ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8

August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19
Diego Vega
The Preview 8 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org. New previews of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available today. Please install these previews to validate that all the functionality required by your applications is available and works correctly...

Update on .NET Standard adoption

August 7, 2019 Aug 7, 2019 08/7/19
Immo Landwerth
It's about two years ago that I announced .NET Standard 2.0. Since then we've been working hard to increase the set of .NET Standard-based libraries for .NET. This includes many of the BCL components, such as the Windows Compatibility Pack, but also other popular libraries, such as the JSON.NET, the Azure SDK, or the AWS SDK. In this blog post...

Calling all .NET desktop and mobile developers!

August 7, 2019 Aug 7, 2019 08/7/19
Olia Gavrysh
We would love to hear about your experience with building client applications in .NET. Your feedback will greatly help us to improve the .NET tooling and ensure our roadmap focuses on your needs. Participate in shaping the future of the .NET client development by taking this short survey (5 minutes to complete). We are also searching for ...